Re: PDF extract text

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject	Re: PDF extract text
Date	Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:38:55 +0200
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Michael Vilain wrote:

>  Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus@flashpixx.de> wrote: 
>> how can I extract text, images and other structures can be ignored,
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> with PHP from a PDF file?
>> We have a lot of LaTeX PDFs and Powerpoint PDFs and would like to
                    ^^^^^          ^^^^^^^^^^
>> extract only the text content
>> to create a text analysis of the content eg for LaTeX scripts we would
>> like the chapter structure as well.
>> 
>> Is there any solution to do this with build-in PHP functions?
> 
> I tried a bunch of stuff to read some bank statements that were in PDF
> format so I could import them via CSV.  Didn't work out so well. Adobe's
> OCR feature only works if the PDFs are unlocked to allow it.  I found an
> application that would do that but the OCRed text was unusable.
> 
> So, my question is "what's generating the PDF files?"

The ability to read can be of advantage sometimes …

> Can you get whomever to do it in text or some other format? 

OMG.  One can leave it to you to give the worst possible technical advice.

> If they're encrypted images, then you've got a lot of work to do in order
> to get some output. Maybe.

Nobody but you is talking about images and OCR.  You really don't have a 
clue what PDF is, do you?

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PDF extract text Philipp Kraus <philipp.kraus@flashpixx.de> - 2014-04-07 06:53 +0200
  Re: PDF extract text Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-07 13:44 +0200
    Re: PDF extract text Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-04-07 21:52 +0200
      Re: PDF extract text Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-07 22:12 +0200
  Re: PDF extract text Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-04-07 08:53 -0700
    Re: PDF extract text Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-04-07 19:38 +0200

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